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This paper investigates the effects of the 2015 mass inflow of refugees to Germany on electoral outcomes. Specifically, using unique data on refugee populations and their type of accommodation, I analyze how local exposure to refugees affects the outcomes of the March 2016 state election - an...
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In this article, we analyze whether non-native speakers in the classroom affect the educational achievement and social integration of migrant and native students. In contrast to previous studies, which mainly examine the effect of the share of immigrant pupils, we focus on language heterogeneity...
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intergenerationally transmitted gender role attitudes also explain economic outcomes of individuals other than immediate relatives …. Focusing on daughters-in-law, we examine whether the gender role attitudes of foreign-born mothers-in-law affect the fertility … positively related to the gender role attitudes in her mother-in-law's country of origin. Employing a new identification strategy …
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Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable microdata. We create a unique cross-country dataset by combining household surveys from five Sub-Saharan African countries that enables us to analyze the effect of migrants'...
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This paper analyzes the interaction between migrant networks and linguistic distance in the location choice of migrants to the EU at the regional level. We test the hypothesis that networks and the ability to communicate in the host country language, proxied by linguistic distance, are...
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economists. However, up to now empirical evidence on gender differentials of labor market entrants and the determinants of their … representative German university, to investigate whether - even for such a homogeneous group of labor market entrants - a gender gap … major part of this gap remains unexplained by gender differences in observable characteristics. …
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women exist. However, whereas men allocate most of their time to market work, women still do most of the non-market work … work that allows for simultaneity and endogeneity of the time allocation decisions of the spouses is applied. The results … suggest that male time in market and non-market work is unaffected by their wife's time use, while women adjust their time …
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This paper analyzes the impact of source-country culture on the labor supply of female immigrants in Europe. We find that the labor supply of immigrant women is positively associated with the female-to-male labor force participation ratio in their source country, which serves as a proxy for the...
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investigates the role of natives' gender norms in the labor market integration of female immigrants. To analyze the role of natives …' gender norms, we exploit intertemporal, interregional, and age-specific variation in female-to-male labor force participation … finding is due to the cultural assimilation of female immigrants to native women's gender norms, and not the result of …
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national soccer team within a country to identify the causal impact of gender equality on women's soccer performance. In … genders, which serve as measures for the country's gender equality, are able to explain differences in the international … male teams, suggesting that gender equality is an important driver of female sport success. …
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